Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Hillingdon CAMHS MHST

Job Overview

This is a role within the Green Paper for Transforming children and young people’s mental health programme. The post holder will work within a Mental Health Support Team providing short‑term evidence‑based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or behavioural difficulties and their parent(s)/carer(s). The post holder will work with children, young people and parents from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

• Provide evidence‑based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
• Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaise with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

Young people have access to the MHST through their education setting. School staff and other potential referrers are able to contact a team of clinical staff to discuss potential referrals. The MHST will manage referrals, deal with queries, undertake clinical telephone triage and face‑to‑face assessment, give advice and signpost young people where appropriate.

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all staff to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members. We expect you to show COMPASSION
, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows you recognise the importance of working collaboratively with all who come into contact with this service.